MSC, a distributor of metalworking and maintenance, repair and operations supplies, will finance the acquisition of ATS, also a metalworking and MRO distributor, using available cash, although terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Along with its Salt Lake City location, ATS also has locations in Phoenix, Ariz. and Tijuana, Mexico.

The company generated approximately $34.5 million in sales in 2011. The acquisition will expand MSC’s distribution offerings in the Rocky Mountain region, where ATS is a dominant player distributing a broad range of industrial and cutting tools, abrasives, machinery, precision instrument supplies and other MRO-related supplies.

Its customers include small machine shops and fabricators to some of the largest aerospace and manufacturing companies in the country.